The racial impacts of COVID-19: Articles
The COVID-19 crisis is hurting all our communities, but not equally. The data that would allow us to document the pandemic’s uneven toll rigorously are incomplete and only now emerging - and it’s already clear that communities of color, including children, once again are on the frontlines of vulnerability.
We’ve gathered - and are updating regularly - news links that begin to tell the story of the impact of COVID-19 on Black, Indigenous and People of Color and other racialized communities. These communities have been sounding the alarm about the vulnerabilities imposed on them by systemic bigotry and malign neglect for a very long time. Will our policy makers and all of us, collectively, hear and respond to the clarion call this time around? (Also see COVID Resources that Take Race Seriously.)
Asian Americans
- Record-breaking hate crime spree in major cities, Axios, 2/5/22
- Hate-Crime Bill Advances in State Legislature With Support of Asian Americans, NY City Lens, 2/3/22
- Barriers to Mental Health Care for Asian Americans—and Solutions, Yes! Magazine, 2/2/22
- Asian Americans mark Lunar New Year amid ongoing hate crimes, Associated Press, 2/2/22
- San Francisco reports big increase in anti-Asian hate crimes, Associated Press, 1/25/22
- The US’s hidden minority hit hard by Covid. Financial Times, 1/24/22
- Asian Americans express concerns over safety as Asian woman is shoved to death at New York subway station, Global Times, 1/17/21
- Boston's Mayor Wu Addresses Hateful Protests at Her Home Over COVID Measures, NBC Boston, 1/15/22
- GOP lawmakers receive free KN95 masks — and respond with racist anti-Asian attacks, American Independent, 1/14/21
- Nearly a third of Asians in San Gabriel Valley report experiencing racism during the pandemic, Los Angeles Times, 1/13/21
- The Power of Reclaiming My Asian Name, Washington Post, 1/5/22
- American Girl Debuts Chinese American Doll in Response to Anti-Asian Sentiment, New York Times, 1/4/22
- Filipino nurses group helps members navigate COVID, cultural transitions, Nevada Independent, 12/22/21
- White House names leaders of AAPI advisory committee, The Hill, 12/21/21
- What record-breaking Google searches showed us about AAPI issues in 2021, NBC News, 12/20/21
- Stop DiscriminAsian Aims to End a Long Legacy of Anti-Asian Hatred in the Art World, ArtNews, 12/17/21
- The health of Asian Americans depends on not grouping communities under the catch-all term, NBC News, 12/13/21
- A Well Placed Kick. A Shove. Asian Seniors Learn Self-Defense as Crimes Rise, NBC4 Washington, 12/10/21
- White House adds new initiative for Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian visibility, NBC News, 12/10/21
- The Race Epidemic' documentary looks at the rise of hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic, CapRadio, 12/10/21
Black Americans
- We are done dying': Expert on increase in Black med students amid pandemic, Yahoo! News, 2/5/22
- Black Americans’ lack of participation in the stock market likely to widen post-pandemic wealth gap, CNBC, 2/2/22
- Black History Lives in Memories and Minds. COVID-19 Has Endangered Those Traditions, Time, 2/1/22
- As COVID Closed Arizona’s Classrooms, Black Mothers Launched Their Own Microschools With Focus on Personalized Learning, Ending School to Prison Pipeline, The 74, 1/26/22
- Child abuse report: Deaths of Black children up in pandemic, Associated Press, 1/25/22
- Black youth face rising rates of depression, anxiety, suicide, EdSource, 1/25/22
- Here’s who’s dying from COVID-19 during the Omicron surge — two years into the pandemic, Chicago Sun-Times, 1/17/22
- Black clergy to distribute 20,000 at-home COVID tests over MLK Day weekend in CT, CT Insider, 1/14/22
- ‘The gap in credit access is growing along racial lines’: Black applicants are denied a mortgage 84% more often than white peers, MarketWatch, 1/13/22
- Why the economic recovery looks different for women of color, Marketplace, 1/13/22
- Death rituals in Black communities have been altered or forgone in the pandemic, NPR, 1/9/22
- Public Schools Are Struggling to Retain Black Teachers. These Ex-Teachers Explain Why, Time, 1/5/22
- Black doctors join forces to address declining trust in medical system, Spectrum News 1, 1/3/22
- Black Voters Mull Biden’s Record in Office, VOA News, 12/31/21
- Online learning, racial tensions and ‘the talk’: Black parents raising children amid multiple crises, NBC News, 12/30/21
- COVID rules at Atlanta’s historically Black colleges tougher than most, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/29/21
- Vaccine gap between Black and White Americans narrowed, but it’s back for booster shots, Washington Post, 12/29/21
- Black Americans continue to see higher jobless rate despite market recovery, The Guardian, 12/24/21
- What Hartford has learned in its fight to raise Black vaccination rates, PBS NewsHour, 12/22/21
- Why is life expectancy so low in Black neighborhoods?, Brookings, 12/20/21
Latinx/Hispanic Americans
- Inside the challenges and opportunities facing Latino students, WFAE 90.7 (Charlotte, NC), 2/3/22
- This Study of COVID Deaths Among Ethnic Groups May Surprise You, Los Angeles Magazine, 2/3/22
- Increasing Segregation of Latino Students Hinders Academic Performance and Could Amplify COVID Learning Loss, Study Finds, The 74, 2/1/22
- Hispanic families in New Mexico continue to struggle through pandemic, survey shows, Las Cruces Bulletin, 1/28/22
- Pregnant Latinas face higher COVID threat, Axios, 1/25/22
- A father’s death, a son’s despair: How COVID upended a family, Los Angeles Times, 1/16/22
- Caring for Children’s Mental Health Throughout Pandemic Poses Challenges to Latino Families, WTTW (Chicago), 1/15/22
- The Latinx Community and Covid Disinformation Campaigns, The New Yorker, 1/14/22
- Among Dominican Americans, a high response to Covid-19 measures, NBC News, 1/14/22
- Colorado Latinos Continue to Face Barriers to College Degrees, Public News Service, 1/10/22
- Study finds Hispanic pregnant women are 2.4 times more likely to contract COVID-19, The Record (Stockton, Calif.), 1/5/22
- ‘We’re coming to them’: One Colorado vaccine activist looks to get shots to every Latino, CPR News, 12/29/21
- Latinas Are Leading the Great Resignation—Here’s Why, Refinery29, 12/28/21
- Latinos still scrambling due to Covid-19 in New Jersey are on high alert over Omicron, CNN, 12/24/21
- This Dallas nonprofit aims to help with mental health needs in Latino community and end its stigma, Dallas Morning News, 12/24/21
- Column: Vaccine hesitancy among younger Latinos threatens our elders. Protect abuelita at Christmas, Los Angeles Times, 12/23/21
- Fewer Latino births, more deaths have an impact on nation's slower growth, NBC News, 12/22/21
- Tennessee’s Hispanic residents have borne brunt of COVID-19 pandemic, Tennessee Lookout, 12/21/21
- OC’s Latino Community Remains Behind on COVID-19 Vaccines One Year Later, Voice of OC, 12/20/21
- USF initiative working to dispel vaccine myths for Spanish speakers, Tampa Bay Times, 12/17/21
Tribal Nations
- BIE to Distribute Over One Million Masks to Protect Tribal Communities Against Spike in COVID Cases, Native News Online, 2/3/22
- Abenaki of the Missisquoi keep their food shelf going strong, St. Albans (VT) Messenger, 2/1/22
- Vicious circle: Tribal broadband program hindered by lack of broadband, Navajo-Hopi Observer, 2/1/22
- Biden's Free Home COVID Tests Out of Reach for Many Native Americans, VOA, 1/29/22
- Tribal survey captures deepening food insecurity in Indian Country that federal data has missed, KUNC (Northern Colorado), 1/27/22
- US announces $83M in latest round of tribal housing grants, Associated Press, 1/18/22
- Navajo increases ability to do COVID testing, vaccinations, Associated Press, 1/18/22
- ‘The clinic, it’s going to be the heart of it all,’ High Country News, 1/17/22
- How the Navajo Nation Beat Back Covid, The Nation, 1/14/22
- Hardship payments on the way, Navajo Times, 1/13/22
- We Can Do This, Indian Country, Native News Online, 1/9/22
- Tribal communities welcome federal relief funds to help ease housing issues, NPR, 1/7/22
- Indigenous communities see COVID-19 increase, but at slower rate because of higher vaccination rates, AZ Mirror, 1/6/22
- 1st case of the omicron variant is detected on Navajo Nation, Associated Press, 1/4/21
- How one Oklahoma tribal leader has navigated the pandemic and her own COVID-19 case, The Oklahoman, 1/2/22
- NYC’s first health survey of Native American residents reveals inequities, New York Post, 1/2/22
- Navajo council votes to send big checks to tribal members, Associated Press, 12/30/21
- COVID worsened Native American housing shortages. Federal grants are providing some relief, The Oklahoman, 12/27/21
- COVID-19 leading cause of death among Montana Native Americans in 2020, Daily Montanan, 12/24/21
- As COVID fueled the drug crisis, Native Americans hit worst, Associated Press, 12/23/21
Immigrants & Refugees
- Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth, New York Times, 2/5/22
- School District Plans to Fly in Immigrants to Fill Jobs, Others May Follow, Newsweek, 2/3/22
- Mexico’s remittances surged 27% in 2021 to $51.6 billion, Associated Press, 2/1/22
- Non-English speaking parents turn to WhatsApp, community groups when COVID translations fall short, Chalkbeat NY, 2/1/22
- COVID killed Minnesota immigrants at higher rates, younger ages, study says, StarTribune, 1/29/22
- California settlement limits ICE from re-detaining immigrants freed because of COVID, Los Angeles Times, 1/27/22
- Omicron Spike Tests COVID Prevention Efforts at Immigration Facilities, VOA, 1/22/22
- Multilingual resources and direct outreach help immigrant communities combat Covid-19, MSNBC, 1/21/22
- Adler: Amid a pandemic, immigrants make Austin stronger than ever, Austin American-Statesman, 1/16/22
- Coronavirus infections inside U.S. immigration detention centers surge by 520% in 2022, CBS News, 1/14/22
- Book highlights vulnerability of refugees in meatpacking plants across American Midwest, National Catholic Reporter, 1/14/22
- Key facts about U.S. immigration policies and Biden’s proposed changes, Pew Research Center, 1/11/22
- Two Immigrants Sue New York Employer Over Dangerous Farmworker Housing, Documented NY, 1/10/22
- Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to be first state to provide health coverage to all immigrants in country illegally, Associated Press, 1/10/22
- COVID tragedy spurs Queens woman into action on immigration reform, Spectrum News NY1, 10/12/21
- We can't abandon a nation of immigrants - that's why we're putting our votes on the line, The Hill, 10/8/21
- Federal complaint claims Black immigrants are discriminated against at Krome, Miami Herald, 10/7/21
- In their own words: 5 Latina immigrant housekeepers on how the pandemic has impacted their lives, The Lily, 10/6/21
- Fauci: Expelling immigrants 'not the solution' to stopping Covid-19 spread, CNN, 10/3/21
- Republicans blaming Covid on immigrants threatens public health and our democracy, MSNBC, 10/2/21
Other Racialized Communities
- DOH: New Yorkers with HIV less likely to be vaccinated for COVID, ABC News10 (Albany, NY), 2/4/22
- Despite Biden’s big promises and a far better understanding of the virus, Covid-19 is still raging through the nation’s prisons, Stat News, 2/2/22
- Homeless See Progress from COVID-19 Policies, But Can it Last?, VOA, 1/28/22
- A U.S. Program for Migrant Students Is Unusually Successful. Now the Pandemic Threatens It, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/28/22
- Food Workers Are Struggling to Put Food on Their Tables, VeryWell Health, 1/24/22
- Low-wage workers prop up the nursing home industry. They’re quitting in droves, Washington Post, 1/22/22
- They used us as an experiment: Arkansas inmates who were given ivermectin to treat COVID file federal lawsuit against jail, CBS News, 1/17/22
- Essential workers face a tough choice: Find a test or miss work, NPR, 1/16/22
- Why many Americans continue to struggle despite trillions of dollars in pandemic aid, NPR, 1/15/22
- Nearly 90% of big US meat plants had COVID-19 cases in pandemic’s first year - data, Reuters, 1/14/22
- New York’s Ban on Evictions Is Expiring. What Happens Now?, New York Times, 1/14/22
- COVID cases triple in California juvenile prisons, CalMatters, 1/12/22
- Child Tax Credit’s Extra Help Ends, Just as Covid Surges Anew, New York Times, 1/2/22
- Mutual aid groups formed amid the pandemic have turned their focus to the homeless, Washington Post, 12/30/21
- Meatpacking jobs are attractive to immigrants. COVID made the work even riskier, WFYI Indianapolis, 12/29/21
- They Were the Pandemic’s Perfect Victims, ProPublica, 12/28/21
- Thousands of children are homeless in Massachusetts as COVID keeps families hesitant from staying in shelters, MassLive, 12/26/21
- Omicron Has Arrived. Many Prisons and Jails Are Not Ready, Marshall Project, 12/22/2
- The First Year of COVID: Farm and Construction Workers Among Those Most Likely to Die, Voice of San Diego, 12/16/21
- America’s most underserved areas saw gun crime rise early in pandemic – study, The Guardian, 12/20/21
General/Crossracial
- Racism Has Caused a Public Health Crisis in California. Now What?, Capital and Main, 2/4/22
- Gay and lesbian adults had higher COVID-19 vaccination rates than heterosexual adults: CDC, ABC News, 2/3/22
- How legacy of medical racism shapes U.S. health care today, American Medical Association, 1/31/22
- Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions, Washington Post, 1/30/22
- A Social Virus? COVID-19 and Intergroup Relations, Psychology Today, 1/24/22
- New conservative target: Race as factor in COVID treatment, Associated Press, 1/23/22
- Pandemic's unequal toll on people of color underlines U.S. health inequities, UPI, 1/20/22
- Cost of masks and tests deepens a pandemic wedge between the haves and the have-nots, NBC News, 1/17/22
- Post-acute neurological consequences of COVID-19: an unequal burden, Nature Medicine, 1/17/22
- People of color have been less likely than their white counterparts to get a COVID-19 vaccine — but that is finally changing, MarketWatch, 1/14/22
- What Many LGBTQ+ Students Worry About Most During the Pandemic, Education Week, 1/10/22
- Kids Who Lost Parents to COVID Deserve Help, Advocates Say, Pew Charitable Trusts, 1/10/22
- Latino children log more excess screen time, study finds, Axios, 1/9/22
- Monday’s mandate for vaccine proof in Chicago expected to marginalize minorities, AdvantageNews, 1/3/22
- 2020 Forced Americans to Confront the Reality of Racism. In 2021, Many Looked Away, Time, 12/29/21
- Pandemic Inequity, Harvard Medical School News & Research, 12/23/21
- UB doctors say COVID vaccine is critical for pregnant women, WKBW Buffalo, 12/29/21
- Children still lagging in routine immunisations after gap caused by pandemic, The Guardian, 12/29/21
- U.S. death rate soared 17 percent in 2020, final CDC mortality report concludes, NBC News, 12/22/21
- ‘Their whole sky has fallen’: more than 167,000 US children have lost a caregiver to Covid, The Guardian, 12/22/21
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